historiography in the 19th.11 The principles that guided this criticism were articulated most insightfully by the German theologian and sociologist of religion Ernst Troeltsch, whose views were later reformulated lucidly by Van Harvey.12 These principles included the autonomy of the historian. This principle is associated with the Enlightenment and especially with Immanuel Kant, although he certainly was not the first to conceive of it.13 As Harvey has well described it, autonomy represented a change